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Hundreds Of Thousands Hong Kong
1,839 wordsHong Kong, British dependency in eastern Asia, on the South China Sea, bordered by China on the north. It is made up of many islands, a portion of the mainland, and a considerable expanse of water surface. It has a land area of 1076 sq km (415 sq mi). Despite its small size, Hong Kong plays an important role in the world economy. The dependency can be divided into three main regions-Hong Kong Island and nearby islets; the mainland Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters Island; and the New Territorie...
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Opium Wars Ch Ing
861 wordsHistorians have christened the wars fought between China and Britain from 1839 to 1842 and from 1856 to 1860 as The Opium Wars; however, the Opium Wars really were not about opium. Even President John Quincy Adams asserted, The seizure of a few thousand chests of opium smuggled into China by the British government was no more the cause of the Opium War than the throwing overboard of the tea in the Boston harbor was the cause of the North American Revolution (Chung, 1). In fact, one may argue tha...
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Opium Wars Hong Kong
1,267 wordsOpium- an addictive drug originally used as a painkiller. It is obtained from the unripe seeds of the opium poppy and can be made into substances that a person can smoke causing relaxation, alleviated anxiety, and a state of euphoria. Continued use of the drug also induces deterioration to the mind and body of a person eventually causing death. The substance was therefore stated illegal in China during the late 18 th Century yet consistently smuggled into the country via British merchant ships. ...
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Israeli Palestinian Conflict Second Punic War
3,630 wordsWhy do wars take place? Most people would think that wars are launched because a country needs more territory, or because a countrys borders are threatened, or because of appeasement. The real reason for war is that countries begin to feel that their honor is threatened; they feel that other nations are not giving them the worth and dignity they deserve, and so they take to the battlefield. On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace, Dr. Kagan is a classical scholar who hopes to get pol...
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Hong Kong Qing Dynasty
2,525 wordsHong Kong has had a long and complex past and looks to have a waning and declining economy. Hong Kong has a peculiar political past. It was taken over by the British after the two Opium Wars. The Treaty of Nanjing gave the British control of the island port of Hong Kong and access to other ports. Afterwards, the second Opium War broke out and this gave the British control of the peninsula of Kowloon. Soon afterwards, the British leased the New Territories from Chinese for 99 years. In 1984 they ...
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Opium Wars Opium Trade
559 wordsThe Opium War was a display of how the greed of one country can destroy the very lives of millions of people in another country. Britain would be categorized as the greedy nation and China the victim. Even though Britain was the main aggressor in this war, there were also other nations involved in the degrading of China s culture, they were France, Russia, and even America. All of these countries took advantage of the addiction China s people had to opium by sending chests of opium with about 15...
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Rest Of The World Opium Wars
951 wordsChina is the perfect example of what happens when one leader is given to much power. The leaders of China were each very afraid of social reform, and the consequences that outside influence may have on their customs. As a means of initiating reform, they shut the entire Western world out almost completely. At the time it was a move that served China well but in the long run it was the downfall of China. While blindfolded, the Chinese were unable to see the great advancements of the Western world...
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